Got XP blue screen of death STOP: 0x0000008E. Now continually get '...Registry data had to be recovered...' on boots.

After crashes started after electrical power outage, we got a XP blue screen of death with 0x0000008E error code. From that I sent error report and that directed me it was a display driver issue and I should turn off Hardware acceleration and uncheck Enable write combining. Now everytime I reboot, I get:

Windows – Registry Recovery
One of the files containing the system’s Registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery was successful.

I put back on Hardware acceleration to one notch down from full and now I can right click the desktop and get a content sensitive menu. Still getting the Windows - Registry Recovery on each reboot though.

I ended up deleting the partitions, formatting the HD and reinstalling from scratch. Since then it has been fine. Do you think it could have been a virus or spyware caused? For all I know the customer could have started a restore and filed it up.

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